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<blockquote data-quote="Evan F. Hunter" data-source="post: 8329" data-attributes="member: 73">Looking for a bit of advice, please feel free to move this if it is the wrong section.I would like to start recording at my shows again and I am looking at an older Mac G5 that is in my area. The specs are: Apple PowerMac A1177, 2.5 GHz X 2, 2GB Ram, 160G 7200rpm HD. It is running 10.6 or so for the OS. I am looking at this because it is cheap honestly, Ram is cheap and so are hard drives. The Processors are my concern. I know I can get at least 8gigs of ram into this computer and a dedicated HD to record to. My question is, with 2x 2.5GHz processors, and&nbsp; 8GB of ram would I be able to record up to 32 tracks via firewire? Typically it would only be 20 channels. The console I have now as well as the one I want in the future and many digital options will all serve as the interface.Reading on the internet I should be OK, but I wanted to ask you guys first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evan F. Hunter, post: 8329, member: 73"] Looking for a bit of advice, please feel free to move this if it is the wrong section. I would like to start recording at my shows again and I am looking at an older Mac G5 that is in my area. The specs are: Apple PowerMac A1177, 2.5 GHz X 2, 2GB Ram, 160G 7200rpm HD. It is running 10.6 or so for the OS. I am looking at this because it is cheap honestly, Ram is cheap and so are hard drives. The Processors are my concern. I know I can get at least 8gigs of ram into this computer and a dedicated HD to record to. My question is, with 2x 2.5GHz processors, and 8GB of ram would I be able to record up to 32 tracks via firewire? Typically it would only be 20 channels. The console I have now as well as the one I want in the future and many digital options will all serve as the interface. Reading on the internet I should be OK, but I wanted to ask you guys first. [/QUOTE]

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